Abstract This article argues that Chinese Confucianism affirms the primacy of the mind (heart‐mind, xin , 心) over the body while achieving mind–body integration through dynamic interpenetration. The Confucian engagement of the mind–body relationship focuses on cultivating individual equilibrium, fostering moral excellence, realizing ideal governance, and attaining social harmony. Unlike Western epistemological approaches to mind–body duality, Confucianism functions as a form of moral praxis—one that situates human beings within cosmic correspondences, interweaving somatic discipline, heart‐mind refinement, and cosmological patterning. Within the Confucian framework, the central concern lies in realizing the moral ideal of the junzi (morally cultivated gentleman, 君子) or sage and achieving the vision of a harmonious society.
Wenwen Wang (Thu,) studied this question.